{"id":15181,"date":"2018-02-14T22:07:17","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T22:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golive.clarku.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/14\/lucian-kim-92-answers-the-russia-question\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T05:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T09:43:10","slug":"lucian-kim-92-answers-the-russia-question","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/14\/lucian-kim-92-answers-the-russia-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucian Kim &#8217;92 answers the Russia question"},"content":{"rendered":"\n            \n            <p class=\"intro news-subhead\">What do the Russian people think about alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election?<\/p>\n            <html><body>\r\n\r\nHardly a day goes by when American media outlets don&rsquo;t cover a new bombshell about Russia&#8217;s meddling in the 2016 presidential election. But what&rsquo;s the Russian view?\r\n<blockquote class=\"quotebox\">&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think collusion is on the radar of the average Ivan on the street. It doesn&rsquo;t affect them.&rdquo;\r\n\r\n<footer><cite>Lucian Kim &#8217;92&nbsp;<\/cite><\/footer><\/blockquote>\r\n&ldquo;Often, there isn&rsquo;t one,&rdquo; Lucian Kim &rsquo;92 says. &#8220;There is not a Kremlin response to everything that happens in Washington.&rdquo;\r\n\r\nThe NPR correspondent explains that the &ldquo;standard government line&rdquo; is similar to the one presented by the White House: &ldquo; &#8216;This is a witch hunt designed by sore losers, by the Democrats, by Hillary Clinton supporters, who are all intent on bringing down Trump.&#8217; That&rsquo;s the government narrative, and it&rsquo;s widely propagated,&rdquo; Kim says.\r\n\r\nWhile the U.S. media is&nbsp;intent on reporting every detail, the story is not news in Russia. &ldquo;It only becomes news when the Kremlin spokesman does a conference call, once a day. Inevitably, a foreign reporter will ask him about something that happened in the U.S. The general response is a denial of any collusion &mdash; it&rsquo;s quite routine, actually.&rdquo;\r\n\r\nThat&rsquo;s not to say Russian media isn&rsquo;t interested in the U.S. &ldquo;The Russian media, even the state media, has had an obsession with the U.S. a lot longer than the U.S. media has had one with Russia.&rdquo;\r\n\r\nWhat about the general population? &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think collusion is on the radar of the average Ivan on the street,&rdquo; Kim says. &ldquo;It doesn&rsquo;t affect them.&rdquo;\r\n\r\n&ldquo;Ordinary Russians do not follow American daily politics,&rdquo; he explains. &ldquo;They did not follow the campaign blow by blow, tweet by tweet. What they&rsquo;re hearing is this is an American president who says he wants to improve relations with Russia, so of course they would like that. Russians are actually interested &mdash; in some ways, obsessed &mdash; with America, and want to have good relations.&rdquo;\r\n\r\nNotably, Kim says, &ldquo;Moscow is not the rest of Russia, which can be detached from the daily political goings-on. Even a lot of the politically aware population of Moscow is not necessarily in agreement with the government.&rdquo;\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<em>This story appeared in the winter 2018 issue of Clark magazine. 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